The Metropolitan Police Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 135) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act was one of the Metropolitan Police Acts, granted royal assent on 28 August 1860.
It consisted of two chapters. The first allowed the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to assign members of the Metropolitan Police to work in royal dockyards in England and Wales such as Portsmouth and for the Commissioner to issue additional "orders and regulations" to standard Metropolitan Police rules to cover these dockyard divisions. The second outlined the powers of constables in such divisions, which covered the land, rivers and waters in the whole of the relevant dockyard and within a radius of fifteen miles around it, with all the powers he would usually exercise within the Metropolitan Police District The act was extended to Scotland in 1914 by the (4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 44).
Subsequent developments The Metropolitan Police were phased out of dockyards between 1922 and 1934. The whole act, except as applied by the Special Constables Act 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 11) was repealed by section 64(3) of, and part II of schedule 10 to, the Police Act 1964, which came into force on 1 August 1964.
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